Mars spaceships will be ready for short flights by the first half of next year, predicts Elon Musk. The SpaceX and Tesla CEO was taking questions during an on-stage appearance at the SXSW conference in Austin. Musk did fudge on this prediction a little bit by conceding that his timelines can be optimistic. Of course, […]
For generations of parents, Toys R Us was the go-to destination to reward a child after scoring the winning soccer goal or to track down the hot plaything for the holidays. But if the superstore chain doesn’t find a buyer or win a last-minute reprieve, Toys R Us is expected to file for Chapter 7 […]
No one is a fan of being bitten by mosquitoes, but the small insects are already beginning to appear in local areas. That’s both good and bad news for Mosquito Joe franchise owner Darryl Nevins, who said he has seen plenty of mosquitoes along Gosling Road during his evening runs. “I’m training right now for […]
A massive 6-foot-long fish washed up on a beach at Bundaberg in southern Queensland, Australia, confused and scared beachgoers leaving them clueless about what the creature was. A few days ago, a couple came across a “monstrous” find while strolling around Moore Park Beach in Western Australia. The two noticed a big lump in the […]
A teenager has been rewarded for her kindness with a college scholarship after she was photographed cutting up food for a 78-year-old diner who couldn’t do it himself. 18-year-old Evoni Williams works as a waitress in a Texas Waffle House in La Marque, Texas to save money for college. During her shift, an […]
Game of Thrones may be out of season, but the complex and multi-dimensional strategic drama at the heart of the acclaimed series can still be witnessed in today’s on-going showdown between Broadcom and Qualcomm. This week, we even had a character “death” of one of the “royals” to boot. For those who have not been […]
We think of tattoos as fixed adornments. Plunge ink deep enough into the skin and there it will sit, suspended in subterranean connective tissue forever. But what if I told you that tattoos are actually maintained by an ever-changing process — one in which ink crystals are continuously engulfed, regurgitated and gobbled back up, merely […]
Environments make species. This was the fundamental biology lesson that was drilled into Charles Darwin when he visited the Galápagos Islands back in 1835, a trip that ultimately inspired his theory of natural selection. Nearly 200 years later, scientists in Hawaii have stumbled upon a fascinating evolutionary quirk that would’ve made Darwin proud—the discovery of […]
Intel Corp. INTC 2.86% is considering a range of acquisition alternatives in reaction to Broadcom Ltd.’s AVGO 2.77% hostile pursuit for Qualcomm Inc. QCOM 1.96% that could include a bid for Broadcom, according to people familiar with the matter. Intel is watching the takeover battle closely and is eager for Broadcom to fail as the […]
Lloyd Blankfein is preparing to step down as Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s GS 1.66% chief executive as soon as the end of the year, capping a more than 12-year run that has made him one of the longest-serving bosses on Wall Street. Goldman is likely to follow an announcement of Mr. Blankfein’s departure with a […]
Doing lots of exercise in older age can prevent the immune system from declining and protect people against infections, scientists say. They followed 125 long-distance cyclists, some now in their 80s, and found they had the immune systems of 20-year-olds. Prof Norman Lazarus, 82, of King’s College London, who took part in and co-authored the […]
Space travel is dangerous for a lot of very obvious reasons — traveling off of Earth on a rocket has its risks, after all — but even when everything goes well it seems that a brief stay in space has the potential to alter a person’s very DNA. That’s the takeaway from a long-term NASA […]
